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Batman is the ultimate right-wing power fantasy. A Billionaire who beats up poor people on the streets because the law/government is too corrupt/weak/incompetent to deal with anything. What had you conflicted about this?
There's a lot of varients of batman from movies and comics, so there's the more obvious than the other
This is from Dark Knight Returns, which is probably the exemplary work for Batman's political message.
Most or at least many Batman fans have a love-hate relationship with TDKR. Not that it disproves your point. I think its an enjoyable story but its outdated and has some really shitty aspects to it.
I think a lot of Frank Miller's subsequent work, and the whole "dark age of comics" that TDKR spawned has soured people on the original.